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...Protestantism's most celebrated ministers last week came an honor long past due. Affable, handsome, internationally known Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, 66, president of New York's Union Theological Seminary, was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian Church...
Fish Market. Son of a wealthy Manhattan family (merchants and philanthropists). Coffin went to Yale ('97, Skull and Bones, Phi Betta Kappa, now a fellow of Yale's Corporation), studied further in Scotland and Germany. Back in the U.S. he went to Union, was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1900. His first parish was a room over a Bronx fish market. There he preached "damnation with the Cross in it," displayed such zeal that his congregation vowed the odor of sanctity overcame the odor of fish...
...Coffin became Union's president. The onetime Presbyterian seminary (it became interdenominational 51 years ago) appealed to him as a place "to turn out men of adventurous spirit, unfettered by tradition." No one was surprised that he administered a ticklish job with complete fair-mindedness. He took both radical students and faculty members, notably Methodism's Harry F. Ward, in his stride, refused to oust Ward. Said...
...child strings daisies. After further study in Germany he returned to Edinburgh to teach moral philosophy. U.S. centers of learning know him well: at intervals between 1919-41 he lectured at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Union and Auburn Seminaries. While at Auburn (1920) he was ordained in the Presbyterian Ministry. He thus becomes the Church of Scotland's first American-ordained Moderator...
...After 17 years in the front-line trenches of Chicago politics, the First World War . . seemed almost tame." He returned to the America of President Wilson ("that damned Presbyterian hypocrite" was how T.R. described him to Ickes), soon to be come the America of Harding ("nominee of those turbulent, grasping, selfish...